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It's the bot's number. Fuck em.
I understand, but keep in mind it could be an innocent user whose phone is taken over by malware, better be safe than sorry.
Good point. Done.
Oh, you can update the picture on Lemmy? Didn’t even occur to me, because I’m so used to the bad practices of Reddit.
All fun and games until we comment how wholesome something is, it swaps to goatse, and our comments get screenshotted & us doxxed.
That’d be a pretty targeted attack (and a good chance to find out who we know has a good sense of humor). Quite unlikely.
Could think of a sicko getting CSAM in the #1 spot on the front page if their initial upload was worthy of getting there…
Content swaps & edits always have some problems but I’ve definitely appreciated that feature.
Or one day a huge poster sells their account for a bunch of money and all the top posts across many communities become ads.
Hope we’re big enough to that to happen someday heh
Even if we verified with social security (govt. ID) numbers, there’d still be astroturfers. Even with IRL KYC (e.g. must be invited by an existing user who swears they met you in meatspace), there still would be. Ahhh!!! We decide where we’ll marry the love of our lives, the retirement community we’ll put grandma in, where we want to vacation or just share lunch based on online reviews/discourse. Badly wish we had a fix.
Well, as long as Lemmy remains small enough, content swapping probably isn’t going to be a major issue. I think I’ve seen some posts about the data Lemmy collects. Isn’t there like a public history of upvotes, edits and all that?
I believe admins have access to just about everything including PMs.
I would guess that for some people, shocking a hundred users before a mod can delete a post would feel like a win in their feeble & deranged minds, so reactive controls (while very important) have a limit to their value.
Don’t have any suggestion here haha just hoping folks behave and weirdos keep it to 4chan.
We have logs right?? (i genuinely don't know and am hoping we do)
Sickos probably have TOR :-/ Hopefully not, I’d definitely report to whoever comes up first on a web search for that (there are a couple organizations, also I think the FBI).
Y'all so wholesome
Or a spoofed number, it works with calls, I assume it also works with SMS?
A spoofed number only works going out, but if you respond, it would go to the real person instead (the same if you call the spoofed number back, you’d get the real person and not the spammer). Since this bot is responding to their replies, it can’t be a spoofed number.
Nah, it’s a telephony number being used by spammers.